| From: | Paul J. Adam Paul@********.demon.co.uk |
|---|---|
| Subject: | APDS |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:10:30 +0000 |
<gurth@******.nl> writes
>According to David Buehrer, at 7:09 on 24 Feb 99, the word on
>the street was...
>> Couldn't the character work out the ballistics on his comp and upload
>> the stats into his smartgun?
>
>Probably, but (Paul Adam probably has better information here) I think it
>would require a lot of test firings and other messing around to get it all
>to work right.
Yep. You need to loose off a hundred rounds or so, on a range and from a
bench or clamp, to calculate the exact ballistics of a handload. For
commercial ammunition, they publish detailed tables for you, you'd just
need to use those.
Of course, if you're buying street or less-than-legal ammunition,
getting the right calibre may be an achivevement, let alone getting
accurate ballistic data for it... "Whaddaya mean ya wanna know who made
it? You wanted ammo, I got you ammo, you gonna buy it or what?" Even
reading the headstamps on cased ammo probably won't help, a lot of
street ammo would be reloads...
Kevin Dole makes the useful point that reducing the size of your "best
shot" grouping by an inch (say, from four to three inches) isn't going
to have much if any effect on combat shooting, but for sniping and
called shots it could be a factor.
I'd suggest that, like customisation, a day or two at the range and
several hundred rounds of ammunition carefully expended could allow you
to get an extra die on your Firearms test when using that exact
ammunition (not just 'flechette' but 'CCI Lightning 55-grain +P
flechette", for instance... and the forensic data will reflect that :) )
>
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Paul J. Adam
